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Former vice president Mike Pence broke his silence on the Jan. 6 insurrection aimed at overturning his election loss.
Supporters of former president Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol as Pence presided over the certification of President Joe Biden's election win, and rioters loudly proclaimed their desire to hang the vice president if he did not undo the loss -- but he wrote a new op-ed published Wednesday by The Daily Signal website justifying the insurrectionists' concerns.
<p>"The tragic events of Jan. 6 — the most significant being the loss of life and violence at our nation's Capitol — also deprived the American people of a substantive discussion in Congress about election integrity in America," Pence wrote.</p><p>The former vice president pointed out that elections are governed at the state level, and argued that the proposed For the People Act would invite fraud by requiring universal mail-in ballots and other measures aimed at increasing access to voting.</p>"Congress will vote this week on <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/02/03/dont-enshrine-our-elections-problems-into-law/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HR 1</a>, the so-called For the People Act, a massive 800-page <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/02/18/bill-overhauling-elections-would-eviscerate-fec-bipartisanship-9-former-members-warn/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">election overhaul bill</a> that would <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/04/15-things-conservatives-say-democrats-election-bill-would-do/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">increase opportunities for election fraud</a>, trample the First Amendment, further erode confidence in our elections, and forever dilute the votes of legally qualified eligible voters," Pence wrote.<p><br/></p><p>Republican state legislatures have responded to Trump's election loss by imposing new restrictions on voting, and Pence said they've got the right idea.</p><p>"Polling shows that large numbers of Democrats did not trust the outcome of the 2016 election and that large numbers of Republicans still do not trust the outcome of the 2020 election," he wrote.</p><p>"Leftists not only want you powerless at the ballot box, they want to silence and censor anyone who would dare to criticize their unconstitutional power grab," he added.</p>
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has fallen under investigation by the Federal Election Commission for questionable campaign fundraising reports.
The FEC has asked Jordan's campaign committee to explain large accounting discrepancies between reports filed several years ago and amended reports filed earlier this year, showing differences of hundreds of thousands of dollars, reported Cleveland.com.
<p>"The campaign has filed an amendment with the FEC to correct its campaign finance reports going back to 2018," said Jordan's campaign manger Kevin Eichinger in a statement. "There was never any money missing from the account. In fact, the campaign's cash balance is actually higher than previously listed on the campaign finance reports. The error occurred when the former campaign treasurer inadvertently double-reported certain fundraising expenses. When the error was discovered, the campaign hired an outside expert to conduct a comprehensive audit and file the appropriate amendments."</p><p>The Ohio Republican's campaign blames the discrepancies on accounting difficulties that arose as donations poured in as Jordan's national profile rose during Donald Trump's presidency, and the committee filed more than a dozen amendments to old reports in January.</p><p>Jordan raised $733,416 in the two years before Trump took office and spent $422,967, leaving $1.2 million in his treasury, but his campaign took in $1,241,417 and spent $1,809,464 in the next two years -- mostly from Ohio -- as he became known as a fierce defender of the GOP president.</p><p>In the 2019-2020 election cycle, Jordan raked in $18,637,140 and spent $13,268,968, leaving him with more than $6 million in his war chest, and California became his top fundraising source, and Florida contributed almost as much as Ohio.</p><p>"The outpouring of nationwide support for our message is why we are raising a ton more money," Eichinger said. "It wasn't like we were actively looking to raise more money. There was an organic outpouring of support. We needed to put in place the operation to handle that kind of influx."</p>
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A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit central Greece on Wednesday, damaging several buildings, including schools, and prompting residents near the epicentre to rush into the streets.
"Everything happened very fast, people ran out of buildings, there are still aftershocks," Chrissoula Katsiouli, a staffer at the mayor's office in the local town of Elassona told AFP.
<p>The fire department said that according to the first reports, a local home and a school had been damaged. Police also sealed off a bridge cracked by the quake.</p><p>Another local official said in Damassi, a village near the epicentre, another local school had also been damaged.</p><p>"Fortunately, the teachers managed to get the children out very quickly and there were no victims," the mayor of Tyrnavos Yiannis Kokkouras told Skai TV.</p><p>Greek media reported that a disabled man trapped in his home in the village of Mesochori had been rescued. TV images showed the side wall of his house had completely collapsed.</p><p>The Civil Protection agency also reported landslides had occurred in the region, and authorities were assessing further damage.</p><p>The US Geological Survey said the earthquake, which could be felt across central and northern Greece, was magnitude 6.3.</p><p>But the Institute of Geodynamics in Athens said earlier the quake had measured at a magnitude of 6.0.</p><p>- 'Significant' aftershocks -</p><p>According to the Athens observatory, the epicentre of the quake was 21 kilometres (13 miles) south of the town of Elassona, near Larissa and was eight metres (26 feet) deep</p><p>There were at least three aftershocks following the main tremor -- including one at magnitude 4.0 -- and authorities warned there could be more.</p><p>Seismologist Gerassimos Papadopoulos warned of further "significant aftershocks", speaking on Skai radio.</p><p>However, experts stress that quake faults in the area rarely produce tremors larger than the one clocked on Wednesday.</p><p>The last major earthquake in the area was in the 18th century and was magnitude 6.2, said Manolis Skordilis, a seismologist at Thessaloniki's Aristotle University, told state agency ANA.</p><p>Greece is located on a number of fault lines, and is sporadically hit by earthquakes.</p><p>But the quakes often happen at sea and do not often kill people or cause extensive damage.</p><p>The last fatal earthquake was in October, when a magnitude 7.0 hit in the Aegean Sea between the Greek island of Samos and the city of Izmir in western Turkey.</p><p>The majority of damage was in Turkey where 114 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured.</p><p>In Greece, two teenagers were reported dead on the island of Samos.</p><p>© 2021 AFP</p>
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